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Nov 6, 2026
Pico IyerGUEST
And another friend, who was a schoolteacher, came in, saw me there, and said, come on, Pico, you can do better than this.
Pico IyerGUEST
And he told me how every spring he took his students up to this quiet retreat house four hours to the north, So I thought, well, if nothing else, I would have a bed to sleep in there and a wide desk and a private walled garden looking over the Pacific Ocean, all the food I could eat, all in those days for $30 a night.
Pico IyerGUEST
So compared with sleeping on a friend's floor, it looked like a very attractive proposition.
Manoush ZomorodiHOST
Pico got into his car and drove north for several hours, up the coast to Big Sur and this monastery, which sits high on a hilltop, surrounded by acres of forest on one side and looking out over the Pacific Ocean on the other.
Pico IyerGUEST
And I do remember very vividly the minute I got out of my car in this monastery, the silence was pulsing.
Pico IyerGUEST
It wasn't just an absence of noise, it was a kind of active presence, maybe of everything I sleepwalk past in my regular life.
Pico IyerGUEST
And I walked into this small but comfortable room, looking out on the Pacific, and instantly I felt I had come home.
Pico IyerGUEST
This was the place I'd been looking for all my life, I felt.
Harry BartellVOICE_ACTOR
Tell Camille Waite that establishing trade between his nation and the United States of America is not easy.
Harry BartellVOICE_ACTOR
First, we must go to the Pacific Sea.
Harry BartellVOICE_ACTOR
and then go back to speak for Camille Waite to Mr. Jefferson, our president.
Harry BartellVOICE_ACTOR
Then many authorized traders will come with rifles and many other valuables.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
Now, I mean, there are limits.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
Our classes starts at the Pacific Ocean and goes to Loveland, Colorado.
Brad IsbellHOST
You could have a pageant at Presbyterian.
Brad IsbellHOST
No, I'm just kidding.
SeanHOST
And here we go.
SeanHOST
What is the major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur commonly?
AprilHOST
Like a fault line?
SeanHOST
What's it called? What is a major area in the basin of the...
SeanHOST
Excuse me.
SeanHOST
What major area in the Pacific Ocean's basin...
SeanHOST
Has a large occurrence of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
SeanHOST
What's it called?
ShirvanHOST
It would render the war lost before the battle is over.
ShirvanHOST
The immense size of the Pacific Ocean confines naval warfare to a limited number of maritime choke points.
ShirvanHOST
During World War II, Japan controlled much of the second island chain.
ShirvanHOST
The Mariana Islands, which include Guam, Tinian, Peleliu, and Saipan, were the prime location of Japanese operations in the Pacific.
ShirvanHOST
In short, Napoleon had just devastated continental Europe, wiped out all the navies, and finally, the French Empire collapsed.
ShirvanHOST
The only navy to survive the Napoleonic Wars was the British, and they quickly moved to dominate the North Atlantic Ocean and the trading routes into India and the Pacific Oceans.
ShirvanHOST
But Britain did not just emerge as a naval power, the leadership of the country used the economic opportunities of trade and they emerged as the leader in the industrial revolution.
ShirvanHOST
So the unintended consequence of the Napoleonic Wars was the rise of the British Empire.
Alizé CarrèreHOST
Welcome to the North Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest human trash dump in the world! Spreading across the Pacific Ocean, the North Pacific Garbage Patch is really more of a series of trash vortices and is the top vacation destination for plastic, chemical sludge, and wood pulp.
Alizé CarrèreHOST
Defining its size is difficult, because it's always moving and it's mostly a soup of tiny microplastics, not an island of grocery bags and drinking straws.
Alizé CarrèreHOST
But some scientists estimate it's approximately 700,000 square kilometers, which is roughly the size of Texas.
Alizé CarrèreHOST
At some point, this bottle got snagged in the North Pacific Gyre, which is really four currents that follow how the air moves around the northern subtropical high pressure area.
Alizé CarrèreHOST
To imagine its journey, let's go to the Thought Bubble.
Alizé CarrèreHOST
Let's say our water bottle fell into a municipal storm drain in Hawaii that got flushed into the Pacific Ocean.
Alizé CarrèreHOST
Starting at the equator, the trade winds drive water west in a flow called the equatorial current.
Alizé CarrèreHOST
This carries our water bottle to the eastern coastline of Asia, where warm waters pile up against the land.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Donald McLennan opened an agency there in 1900 and sold insurance on grain waiting in railroad warehouses for the frozen lakes to open.
speaker_1NARRATOR
He sold to railroad executives across the Midwest, and the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific became his clients.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The company's history says that during one round of negotiations, he spent 30 nights in a row in a railroad car.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Then, three salesmen found they had been promised the same client.
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speaker_1NARRATOR
The second reason is because the leader lost the will to lead.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Not a crook.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Late in the 1960s, a young salesman from Sydney spent six weeks touring Papua New Guinea and the islands of the Pacific.
speaker_1NARRATOR
He was Robert Kelly, who would one day build Steadfast, a network of Australian insurance brokers.
Ellie O'ByrneGUEST
And then we went to Singapore.
Ellie O'ByrneGUEST
Then we had to get on a flight because obviously you have the little matter of the Pacific Ocean, which you can't cycle across.
Ellie O'ByrneGUEST
And then we cycled all around Japan.
Ellie O'ByrneGUEST
And then we got a flight again to Vancouver.
Josh HallmarkHOST
Tracy Christine Wircalla, sadly, is believed to have died by suicide.
Josh HallmarkHOST
Her car and purse were found atop the Megler Bridge, the bridge that connects Washington and Oregon where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean.
Josh HallmarkHOST
The Megler Bridge has been subject to lawsuits and debate after an uptick in bridge suicides over the past decade.
Josh HallmarkHOST
That leaves Letitia Michelle Doherty, a 28-year-old woman who disappeared from Portland on July 25th of 2012, and sadly that is the extent of information available about her disappearance.
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